Vocal/ Lyrical Mistakes on Cast Recordings

[BroadwayNYC25]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 1:18am

I know this thread already exists but it really only focused on new riffs on recordings. I just bought a ton of recordings to listen to in the car, new and old. Let me know if you noticed any.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 1:35am

Ricky Martin in Evita.

[BroadwayNYC25]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 1:52am

Any specific song?

[CindersGolightly]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 3:54am

All of them.

[broadwayguy91]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 6:43am

CindersGolightly said: "All of them.

 

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LOL

[dramamama611]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 8:12am

Yes, what are the mistakes he will hear on the recordings in his car.

 

 

Damn, and I was trying you refrain from snark.

[rqz88]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 11:05am

Patti says "Raulen Bacall" in Rainbow High.

[Mike Costa]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 12:42pm

You know that LuPone does not actually mess up Bacall's name, right?

Not to defend LuPone's diction (Alessandrini makes one of his best jokes around it) but if one is singing the O vowel in So and must change to the L of Lauren it is natural to pass thru a formation that sounds like an R if you are singing correctly. 

I doubt Patti Lupone has ever messed up Lauren Bacall's name in any situation.
I would not be so certain of the reverse, though Bacall was sharp as a kidney stone.

Updated On: 8/11/16 at 12:42 PM

[JennH]

Posted: 8/11/16 at 11:23pm

Morrisons literal TRAVESTY that was his Italian diction in Piazza...I hope Pavarotti never heard it, cause if he didn't while he was alive, he's certainly rolling in his grave about it now.

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:00am

One that bugs me every time i hear it is on the Next to Normal cast recording, during the song I'm Alive. In the part where the lyric goes "I've shown you I own you", it always sounds to me like Aaron sings "I've showed you I own you", which is both grammatically incorrect and ruins the rhyme scheme that the correct lyric has.  I might be hearing it wrong, but it sounds enough like showed rather than shown to bother me a bit.

Updated On: 8/12/16 at 10:00 AM

[rattleNwoolypenguin]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:20am

West Side Story film soundtrack:

 

"THE JETS ARE GONNA HAVE THEIR DA-WAYYYY TONIIIIIIGHT"

 

How they let that one fly always kills me.

[ukpuppetboy]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 10:28am

Is it just me or does that ensemble member's line in "Made of Stone" end horribly flat on the recent Hunchback studio recording? Ruins all of Michael Arden's good work for me so I find myself listening to Drew Sarich in German instead. And still being amazed by how he finishes that song in an octave higher than his bell tower.

Updated On: 8/12/16 at 10:28 AM

[Phantom4ever]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 11:16am

Why is "I've showed you" grammatically incorrect? Can't the past participle of show be showed or shown? 

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 12:53pm

"Shown" is the past participle which combines with "have" to make the present perfect tense. If you were using "showed" it would just be "I showed you." "Have showed," or the contraction "I've showed," is grammatically incorrect (if that's what was said).

[adam.peterson44]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 12:53pm

I think show has showed  and has shown/have shown rather than has showed/have showed.  In any case, only shown rhymes with own, so it sounds grating to sing showed in that context.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 1:01pm

Streisand's vocal crack/yodel at the end of "Don't Rain on My Parade" on the Original Broadway Cast Recording of FUNNY GIRL.  

[DooWahDiddy]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 2:16pm

I didn't notice until years later that Adam Pascal is clearly saying "I have always love you" at the end of "Your Eyes" on the Rent cast album.  There is absolutely no d to be found...

[broadwayboy223]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 2:21pm

The most famous one I can think of is Elaine Stritch at the end of the title song of Company during the long LAAAOOOOOVEEEEEEE. She's insanely flat and then she drops out halfway through.

[gypsy101]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 2:41pm

BrodyFosse123 said: "Streisand's vocal crack/yodel at the end of "Don't Rain on My Parade" on the Original Broadway Cast Recording of FUNNY GIRL."

I'm pretty sure that wasn't a mistake because I think she sang it like that frequently (for some strange reason).

What I assume was a mistake is in the same album toward the end of Corner Man she sings "A powder-blue Norfolk suit, a silver-plated wah-wah mule" which is hilarious and isn't the lyric and also doesn't rhyme and makes no sense (but I still love).

[ggersten]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 4:01pm

Alice Ripley - Next To Normal - "I'm no shoshopath" rather than I'm no sociopath"

[dtzumbrunnen]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 4:11pm

In the Heights "When You're Home" - Mandy Gonzalez sings in reply to stopping at Benny's fire hydrant, you would open it every suller" and not summer.  

[TNick926]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 4:39pm

Regarding Streisand in Cornet Man on OBC of Funny Girl - She's singing  "waa waa mute" but you're right - I just listened and she certainly doesn't really close that "t"...  :) 

 

Updated On: 8/12/16 at 04:39 PM

[marcslope]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 4:49pm

She has interesting vocal tics all over the album. My favorite is "Aaaahhhh.... ladda blag dulie... radda blag dulie... I'll flicker then flare up." She means, "I'll light up like a light, right up like a light." It sure doesn't come out that way. 

[schubox]

Posted: 8/12/16 at 6:08pm

adam.peterson44 said: "One that bugs me every time i hear it is on the Next to Normal cast recording, during the song I'm Alive. In the part where the lyric goes "I've shown you I own you", it always sounds to me like Aaron sings "I've showed you I own you", which is both grammatically incorrect and ruins the rhyme scheme that the correct lyric has.  I might be hearing it wrong, but it sounds enough like showed rather than shown to bother me a bit.

 

 


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I hear what you're talking about but I still think he says "shown "

 

 

Updated On: 8/12/16 at 06:08 PM

[vfd88]

Posted: 8/13/16 at 11:05am

On the Once on This Island OBC "Forever Yours (Reprise)" - after Papa Ge's solo ends and right before Ti Moune says "I can't!", the ensemble is crescendoing with "ahs", and one male singer sings one extra "ah" after everyone else drops out. Drives me nuts every time.

Also, The Producers "I Want to Be a Producer", the ensemble girl who starts to sing "he" during the whistling solo.